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at Kingfale in Ireland, as appears from the fol- 
lowing letter. 
LETTER XXIII. 
From L. Nicola £o James Simon, Efq-, F. R. S. 
Head Jan, 
1756. 
22, 
A' 
SIR, 
S I have been defired to write an 
account of the extraordinary agita- 
tions of the fea here, on the fatal firft of November, 
which may poffibly be acceptable to the Royal So- 
ciety, I have taken the liberty of directing it to you 
as a member of that Society, to tranfmit or fupprefs, 
as you may think proper. 
On the firft of November, between the hours of 
two and three afternoon, the weather being very 
calm, and tide near full, a large body of water fud- 
denly poured into this harbour, with fuch rapidity 
that it broke the cables of two Hoops, each moor’d 
with two anchors, and of feveral boats lying be- 
tween Scilly and the town, which were carried up, 
then down, the harbour, with a velocity far exceed- 
ing what 1 ever faw by a fliip or boat, though fa- 
voured with all the advantageous circumftances of 
tide and wind, in any degree of violence. By the 
direction, in which the Hoops were carried down, I 
imagined they and feveral boats would have ran foul 
of each other, and alfo of the King’s (or revenue) 
boat, which lay at her moorings : but juft at the 
time I thought this unavoidable, an eddy whirled 
them round feveral times, and hurried them up again' 
with the fame rapidity. This was repeated feveral 
times ‘y 
